Thursday, March 30, 2017

Many
of us wish we could simply remove Trump & Pence and install Clinton (or Sanders) as president, but I believe if the presidency was simply handed
over to Clinton, we would likely have a violent revolution on our hands.
In any event, the constitution would not allow for that.

If
both Trump AND Pence were found to have knowingly colluded with the
Russians, and both resigned or were impeached and found guilty, the
best result would be, IMO, another election. During any interim period
presumably Ryan would become president unless he too were found to have
been involved with Russia. That would leave us with a President Tillerson. Oh goody!

Again, I don't know if the
constitution would allow for another election. Congress would, I
suppose, have to enact new legislation approved by both houses, signed
by whoever sits in the Oval Office and probably it would have to survive
Supreme Court challenges.

All that could take a great
deal of time, and considering that the majority of the players in this
scenario would still be Republicans, its success would be very much in
doubt. It could actually take years to resolve, maybe involving a
constitutional amendment. In the mean time the country could go down
the tubes. It all sucks.

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Has
anyone noticed that Trump has spent almost every week-end of his
presidency at a "Trump" property which just happened to have a golf
course handy? It is believed that he has actually played something like
15 rounds of golf since his inauguration. That comes to something around
8 to 10 hours on the links every week.

Remember, during his
campaign he criticized his predecessor for playing way too much golf,
and protested that he would be far too busy to even leave the White House working his ass off for all of us, let alone go out and fritter hours away slicing and dicing a golf ball.

Well, seems he still sports a rather prodigious ass.

I believe the Trumpster is having buyer's remorse. I believe he finds
himself trapped in a job for which he is totally unfit, which requires
him to suffer fools (as he would have it,) and in which he does not
always get his way. He is not used to being questioned, or having people
tell him no.

So, he escapes every chance he gets to Mara-Lago
or other places he owns that only incidentally have golf courses. He has
spokesman Sean Spicer and others in his sphere, and even FOXNews lie
for him, denying that he plays golf when he takes off every week-end, or
rather claiming that his golf outings are a way different affair in
that he plays with "important" people, whereas apparently we are to
believe Obama just scrounged around the links with his liberal terrorist
bomb throwing pals.

Monday, March 27, 2017

If
Republicans gave a rat's ass about their constituents, they would stop
their "repeal Obamacare" bullshit, and work to make changes in the ACA
that will make it better. Even Obama was aware and stated from the get
go that the bill as passed was not perfect, that there would likely be a
need to change things as time went on. This was the first such bill
EVER passed by congress and signed into law.

Reps complain now
that no Democrats supported their bill, but they conveniently forget
that they were just as opposed to the ACA and none of them voted for it
either. Had there been a greater level of cooperation by Republicans
during the process of setting up the ACA, it might have been better.

The problem is that the two factions are so ideologically divided that apparently little or no cooperation is possible.

Sunday, March 12, 2017

Paul
Ryan adamantly claims that the Republican health care bill is historic.
No it isn't, not in any substantive way. The ACA WAS historic. It was
the first comprehensive health care bill to ever pass out of congress
and be signed into law.

What the Reps have done so far is put
millions of people who currently have health insurance at risk, making
it more difficult and far more expensive - especially for the elderly -
to obtain and maintain health insurance, and providing more tax cuts for
the rich. It there is anything historic in this, it's simply a
reiteration of how self serving, miserly and out of touch house reps
are.

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge

Thought For The Day

I'm not thorough. I'm just slow.

Food for Thought

Sometimes yes, maybe no. Sometimes no, maybe yes.

Thought For a Green Day.

"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- William Butler Yeats

About Me

I am a charter member of the Boomer generation having been born in 1946. My fellow Boomers and I have lived through some incredible events - good and bad. Now my wife Jo and I are "empty nesters" faced with aging and all that comes with it. My two kids are out and about pursuing their lives. My wife and I continue to adjust to life in the slow lane.